I honestly don't understand people who say the Officer needs beefing. He has a strong pistol and lots of useful equipment, from bacta canisters to a freaking heavy tripod repeating blaster with enough firepower to tear through an AT-ST and Combat Speeder. People who want an SMG or whatever for him just don't understand that he's not supposed to be a Rambo/fighting class, but a "Leader class". I've played Officer repeatedly and never gotten bored with him or felt "weak". Gunning people down with headshots with the pistol, placing a MKII and mowing down litterally a dozen stormies before I'm taken down, placing a spawn beacon in an unlikely place and turning the tide of the battle, keeping my troops going with ammo and bacta... the times in Mos Espa when my squad guarded Junkyard and Market and another squad guarded Slave Quarters and I ordered my squad back and forth based on the events around us... it's an awesome class and needs no beefing.

If anything, it's the other classes that need tweaking to make them more dependent on him (Trooper should definitely lose the stupid UAV droid, or the droid should be nerfed or given another role). The Officer is highly useful.

Really? So careful maneuvers, cunning tactics and ambushes shouldn't be part of the game? It should be head-on attacks only, with cunning being punished? I beg to differ.

So when you play other mods than FS, you never attack because you don't have a portable 1 foot spy sat that follows you where ever you go? I don't believe that.

The intention of the Locater Box was for it to be the main source of UAV. It isnt nerfing the trooper to force the Officer upon you, it is reinstating the original goal.

Troopers arnt supposed to be rambo's. THe UAV droid's effect on the gameplay only serves to isolate the trooper from any squad orientated teamwork/interdependency.

Id would be interesting to see how many of the "UAV Droid lovers" actually take part in teamwork(esp. with an officer). I'd bet its quite a low percentage... afterall, there is little need to, you can just go off on your merry way and come looking for some supplies if needed. Why does the Trooper need to stay with his squad/Officer if the Officer's UAV isnt needed. Sure there is bacta , but a game centres around combat ... 1st finding it, then taking part in it and then post combat activities (heal etc) . ATM the trooper doesnt need anyone else in 2/3 of that mechanic

FS is about teamwork and leaders. With good teamwork and good decisions turning the tide of battle. Using UAV is probably the most important part of any battle. Give the main UAV source back to the Officer with a human making decisions when and how to use it , rather than a constant stream of UAV from a non human player - leaving people just blindly following dots all the time.

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